Ding Lei is the person Zhang Chen found at the helm of his portal.

Now Wang Zhidong, who has a wave of heart, has begun to engage in the four-way cube, and Zhang Chaoyang is too arrogant, and it is estimated that he will be inseparable from the original computer newspaper team when he comes. Zhang Chen thought about it for a long time, but still felt that among the three network musketeers in the pre-Chinese Internet era, only Ding Lei was the most suitable person at the helm of the portal.

Seeing Zhang Chen mention Firebird BBS, Ding Lei helped his glasses and said embarrassedly: "The number of active people is only a few hundred people a day, and the number of registrations has not yet reached 10,000, seven or eight thousand." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Seven or eight thousand is not enough, and now the number of people who can access the Internet in China is not more than one million, which is very remarkable." ”

Ding Lei blushed, he was born in technology and was essentially a geek. On the Internet, Ding Lei is humorous and very talkative, but in reality, he is a dead fat house who blushes when he talks to strangers.

Zhang Chen's ID in Firebird BBS is Zack, but he doesn't speak much. After winning the computer newspaper, Zhang Chen asked Xiao Lele to get in touch with Ding Lei on Firebird and asked him if he was interested in joining a newly founded website.

Ding Lei now has more than 100,000 yuan in savings, all of which he saved when he worked in Sybase and the Telecommunications Bureau. After he arrived at Feijie, in addition to the salary and bonus in the first few months, it was quite generous, and as Feijie fell into a serious financial crisis, he couldn't even pay his salary in the past two months.

Although he has a small amount of money now, he can't help but sit and eat nothing. When he was worried about his future livelihood, Ding Lei saw Xiao Lele's message on Firebird. With the mentality of having dates and not playing a shot, Ding Lei and Xiao Lele got in touch.

Ding Lei didn't expect that it was IDG who contacted him, and now IDG has a certain reputation in the domestic Internet circle, and many people who are interested in entrepreneurship know this investment company from various channels that can be free of interest, no need to repay money, as long as the shares are also very generous.

Ding Lei is now thinking about leaving Feijie, and with this opportunity, of course, he promised to talk, so Zhang Chen's trip to Yangcheng was born.

Of course, it is okay to let Ding Lei go to Bincheng or Kyoto to talk, but Zhang Chen came to Yangcheng for other things, so he simply came over in person.

Zhang Chen looked at Ding Lei, who was a little cramped, and said with a smile: "Illiam, don't be nervous, let's just talk casually." Lele should have told you that our IDG has just acquired the computer newspaper, and is ready to borrow the resources of the computer newspaper to build the largest portal in China. So I found you this time and was going to ask if you would like to join this team?"

Ding Lei had all kinds of speculations before, but he never thought that IDG would build the largest website in China, and he didn't expect IDG to find himself and ask if he was willing to join and start a business together. The word portal was automatically ignored by Ding Lei. What is a portal? Haven't heard of it.

Ding Lei's face flushed with excitement: "Mr. Zhang, of course I am willing." "Anyway, there aren't many opportunities like this, so I'll definitely say yes first.

Zhang Chen waved his hand, "Just call me Zack, you are older than me, don't be so polite." ”

Ding Lei said embarrassedly: "Za, Zack, of course I do, but I want to ask, what did you ask me to do?"

Zhang Chen smiled and said: "I want to hear your thoughts first, what do you think about the computer newspaper running a web portal? If you were asked to do it, what would you do?"

Ding Lei's heart was uneasy, but he was full of hope, what did Zhang Chen mean by asking this question? If I was asked to do it? Does he want to make himself the leader of this portal?

Ding Lei thought quickly in his mind, and after thinking about it for a while, Ding Lei said slowly: "Zack, it's the first time I've heard of the concept of a portal. If we're mistaken, you're trying to make an entrance to the Internet. Since it is an entrance, I think it should be easier to start with Yahoo and use the search business as a breakthrough. ”

Zhang Chen admired in his heart, in the end, he was a big bull in the future, and he really hit the nail on the head from the perspective of looking at the problem.

In the pre-Internet era, it was the era of search engines. With the continuous increase of network information, how to more efficiently filter out the information they need from the Internet is a difficulty that all first-time Internet users need to face.

Therefore, almost all the first-generation domestic portals, around 98 or 99, opened up their own search business. Of course, most of them work with well-known search engines such as Yahoo and have a Yahoo search bar built into their websites to expand their search business.

Zhang Chen's first thought of the portal is, of course, search, and he has ready-made technology in his hands that is better than Yahoo - Larry Page and Sergei Brin's BackRub.

Zhang Chen nodded: "I think so too, do you have any other ideas?"

Ding Lei obviously has an idea, "you choose the computer newspaper to be the web portal, you must be interested in the content and readership of the computer newspaper, the current readership of the computer package and Internet users are highly overlapped, and with the help of content to attract new users, in this regard, the computer newspaper does have an inherent advantage." So, when it comes to attracting new users, I'm not worried. How to retain users is the focus we need to consider. Therefore, I think that in addition to searching, our website should also engage in community. ”

Zhang Chen asked, "Are you talking about BBS?"

Ding Lei blushed, "Yes." Seeing Zhang Chen's appearance of smiling but not smiling, Ding Lei hurriedly explained: "It's not because I'm doing BBS now that I have a preference for BBS, but because BBS is indeed the most effective means to retain users." ”

Ding Lei said more and more smoothly: "Search, content, BBS, these three can form a very good chemical reaction, search to attract customers, content to satisfy customers, BBS to delight customers." Search is the bone, the content is the meat, and the BBS is the spirit. With these three, even if our portal is built, I believe that there will be no competitors in China in a short period of time. ”

Bang bang, Zhang Chen applauded heartily, Ding Lei said it was too good,

Ding Lei added: "And BBS is more economical, now renting server space from Telecom is too expensive, my Firebird BBS can only rent for less than a year for 30,000 yuan." ”

Zhang Chen said disapprovingly: "You don't have to worry about this, we are ready to build our own servers and apply for bandwidth." ”

Ding Lei opened his mouth and built his own server and bandwidth? How much does it cost?

Ding Lei cautiously asked: "Zack, can I ask how much you plan to invest in this portal? ”

Zhang Chen said calmly: "The initial investment is about 2.5 million, and the money has already arrived in the computer newspaper account. The investment should exceed 15 million within two years, with no upper limit. And," Zhang Chen paused, "in the early days, our only goal was to be a user and attract all the netizens who could access the Internet from all over China to our website. As for the question of profitability you mentioned。。。。。。 I'm ready to lose 20 million in three years. ”

(End of chapter)